Mano (stone)

Native American manos from Arizona.

A mano (Spanish for hand) is a ground stone tool used with a metate to process or grind food by hand.[1] It is also known as metlapil, a term derived from Nahuatl.[2]

  1. ^ Mano. Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Retrieved December 9, 2011.
  2. ^ Telléz, Lesley (July 16, 2010). "Lessons in back-breaking Mesoamerican cooking: How to season a metate". The Mija Chronicles. Archived from the original on November 27, 2011.